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Tabula Rasa or What would you do if you were starting over in a brand new environment?
Jamie Phelps | Oct 25 2007
Most people are rarely lucky enough to have the chance to ask for help like I am. I think our resident alliterative basket case would call this a first world problem. I just started a new job (an IT internship for a large corporation), and my cube is bare. I fetched a few supplies for the desk, but before I go further getting myself situated, I wanted to ping you guys. What would you do if you had essentially no constraints on a new setup? Here's some info about the parameters: 1) Windows XP with Outlook for email. This isn't negotiable. 2) Can't install apps on the computer. Mobile apps should be OK, so I can use Firefox, et al once I install it on my flash drive. 3) Cube with a locker, four drawers (one for files, doy.), two overhead shelves/cabinets, and an open shelf. For my personal system, I rock an iPhone and hPDA for actions. I don't want work to bleed over into my personal time so I think I'm open to a new setup for work. But I do love my index cards. So, what say you 43folders friends? 12 Comments
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 Re: Tabula Rasa or What would you do if you were starting over iSubmitted by Stew on October 29, 2007 - 1:49pm.
I had the pleasure of reconfiguring my environment when I started a new job 2 months ago. My old company was very technologically advanced - we didn't rely on paper, but weren't afraid to use it if necessary. My new company, on the other hand, got off the tech train sometime in mid-1997. Sure, the computers are new, but the business practices need a serious update (I used a typewriter today, lucky me). It's been an interesting transition, and my setup has had to adapt accordingly. I manage GTD on paper, so it wasn't tough there, but I added several new boxes to handle the wave of incoming paper. I now have a @reading box to catch the things that used to be PDFs. I can't scan anything since we don't have a scanner, so it's very much back to basics. Oddly enough, I realized that my GTD setup had a lot of overhead I didn't need. Now that I'm having to spend more time on processing my physical environment, I needed to trim down my GTD setup to make it more efficient. » POSTED IN:
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